How to do a Name Server Change?

[Avathar77]

A friend of mine has a web site & a domain hosted in 1&1 hosting.
For some reason, their name servers are NOT from 1&1 - they are from zoneedit.com! (that is how the previous "IT guy" have set it up).
Now he wants to change the name server to 1&1 hosting.
Can any one tell me how to do this please?

 

[Avathar77]

I was confused why he wants to change it to 1&1(why change if things are working fine now), "IT guy" was the wording he used I found it funny!
I just finished talking to him over the phone, and it seems like my friend has officially terminated services from the "IT Guy" Something to do with not attending to all the call outs for weeks! But upon termination "IT Guy" have asked to change the name servers of my friends domain as they are in one of his(IT guys) accounts in zone edit.com.
Not sure if I made it clear or not

Any way thanks for the link, I was just looking at it as well.
It says it may take 48 hours to change, so I guess his domain will be down for that time?(it is just the web site that is hosted in the domain, email is by Google apps)

 

[Avathar77]

Thank you for the reply!
I just passed the information to my friend - told him what to ask for(MX records).
Hopefully it should be easy!